Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:29:31 -0600
From: will cunningham <willpanther@...il.com>
To: sabotage@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: changing/fixing the tarballs in the butch
>
> Also, butch keeps rebuilding things that are already installed. Is this
> something that happens to you?
>
>no, this never happens to me. could you elaborate ?
>in general "butch rebuild pkg" just rebuilds "pkg" and none of pkg's
>dependencies. what's the exact command you're using?
This was happening when I tried to install firefox again after it not
installing. That is, it wouldn't install, and I would retype 'butch
install firefox,' and some of the dependencies would rebuild as if butch
didn't know they were installed.
It was also weird the way some of the deps wouldn't download for a while
and then would. That is, say there were 10 deps; three might not be able
to download; I'd check on this computer that they were there and
downloadable, but after a while they'd download fine.
Thanks for the qt4 amendment. I wiped everything out and in the next 24 I'm
trying a couple different orders of compiling apps. Doing this a few times
mixing it up we'll see if thinks like the above happen regularly.
We're gettin there,
Will
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:21 AM, John Spencer <maillist-busybox@...fooze.de>
wrote:
> will cunningham wrote:
>
>> Firefox just compiles until it runs out of something. It didn't run out
>> of
>> disk space yesterday but finally ran out of some IO somewhere, but it did
>> run out of ram the day before compiling it and I realized I hadn't added
>> my
>>
>
> yeah it's quite resource-heavy. iirc the minimum that i needed to get it
> built is 2GB of RAM with 1GB swap. also you'd need at least 3-4 gb free in
> /src/build and /tmp.
> so usually i only build it on a desktop system with loads of RAM, cores
> and HDD space.
>
> swap partition to fstab, and that time it said specifically that it was a
>> memory problem.
>>
>> Also, butch keeps rebuilding things that are already installed. Is this
>> something that happens to you?
>>
>
> no, this never happens to me. could you elaborate ?
> in general "butch rebuild pkg" just rebuilds "pkg" and none of pkg's
> dependencies. what's the exact command you're using?
> and keep in mind there's only one instance of butch that should be running
> at a given time since they're all trying to write butch.db.
>
>
>> I'm also on an x86_64 machine so there must be something different if
>> you're not having these problems. If I can't figure it out in the next
>> couple, I'll start again and see if these problems come up in the chroot
>> environment, as it could be something in how I've loaded it on my hard
>>
>
> for best results i'd just build the problematic packages straight after
> stage1 so there's no additional libraries that could trigger optional
> dependencies (like in qt4).
> ofc even better would be to detect the problems and explicitly disable the
> unwanted optional features.
>
>
> drive, and/or configured my kernel, the system etc, though that seems kind
>> of odd.
>>
>> onward,
>>
>> Will
>>
>
> --JS
>
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